An Archaic Anchor Arm from Liman Tepe/Klazomenai, Turkey

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to the project's dive masters, A. Yurman and S. Breitstein of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa, and to the diving volunteers who participated in the excavations. The project was financed by the Hatter Foundation, the Frankel Foundation, the University of Haifa and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. N. Liphschitz of Tel Aviv University carried out the wood identification, S. Shalev the metal analysis. D. Faulmann of INSTAP drew the anchor arm from photographs. Y. Kahanov and the staff of the Hecht Museum permitted photography of the Ma‘agan Mikhael anchor.

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Funding

the Hatter Foundation

the University of Haifa and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism